Few asset classes produce as wide a range of opinions as emerging market equities. Most agree that at least some of the countries which fall into that category will grow significantly in the coming years, but views vary on how to access that growth.

Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey – the MINT countries – have replaced the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) as the ones to watch, according to analyst Jim O'Neill. But should we believe him?

Known as the father of value investing, Benjamin Graham believed that the man in the street could beat the professionals at stockpicking by following some surprisingly simple rules. But do his ideas still work today?

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Hugh Yarrow, manger of the Evenlode Income fund, which returned 7 per cent in the 2014 calendar year, considerably ahead of the return achieved by the average fund in the sector, has disclosed the income stocks he has been buying for value over the past month.

The recent budget introduced a proposal to lift the tax free allowance for a couple from the current £650,000 to £1 million, which applies to the family home only. Investors with assets other than the family home have a number of considerations to bear in mind, but an increasingly popular option being deployed by private investors is to invest in companies listed on the AIM market. These are stocks that are usually the equity of companies that are relatively early stage businesses.

With negotiations ongoing to keep Greece in the euro, David Thorpe considers what a future vote for Britain to leave the EU could mean for your portfolio. As I type these words, uncertainty haunts the streets of Greece, and the possibility of a ‘Grexit’ from the euro has been a shadow over European equity markets for weeks.

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